Sometimes, the Twitters can do awesome things. 🙂 For those of you who haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame, avert your eyes… Twitter user John Grosjean remixed Captain America lifting Thor’s hammer during the penultimate fight sequence with the 1986 song “The Touch” (from the Transformer movie) and it’s quite the perfect pairing.
Folks love to stir up stuff even when there’s nothing there. Speaking to reporters backstage at the Emmy Awards last night after his historic win as ‘Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series,’ Billy Porter was asked about some Twitter activity that imagined him giving some side-eye during RuPaul’s acceptance speech for winning the trophy for ‘Outstanding Reality-Competition Series.’ This was the screen capture folks were bouncing around the Twitterverse:
What was THAT look about? Billy Porter seems to not be feeling RuPaul's Emmy acceptance speech. #Emmyspic.twitter.com/ADgKNFDooX
But when a reporter from Essence brought up the minutes-new meme, Billy shut that down and quick. “Let me make this clear right now in this room to everybody. Right now. There was never a side-eye coming from me. There’s never anything negative coming from me. You’re never going to get from it. Okay. It’s all love, all love, it’s all positivity. Don’t come to me with that mess. They can catch me and it can look like a side-eye, [but] RuPaul is a friend of mine. I am so proud of him. I stand on his shoulders. I stand on his shoulders. He is doing it. He paved the way for me, so there’s never a side-eye about that.”
According to cable business network CNBC, data indicates Donald Trump would help his reelection chances by pulling back on the Twitter rants. Bank of America Merrill Lynch issued a statement on Tuesday based on analyzing Trump’s Twitter activity since 2016. Savita Subramanian, the brokerage’s chief equity strategist, wrote that “days with more than 35 tweets (90 percentile) by Trump have seen negative returns (-9bp), whereas days with less than 5 tweets (10 percentile) have seen positive returns (+5bp) — statistically significant.” A basis point is 0.01 percent. “Trade talk, political campaigning, and tweets have contributed to volatility, from China to Fed policy to tax policy,” Subramanian added. “And new tariffs announced in August indicate downside risk to our 2019/20 EPS growth forecasts of +2%/+7%, where indirect impacts from hits to corporate or consumer confidence could be significant.” Many inside Team Trump have said off the record that Trump is well aware his main calling card for reelection has been the relative strength of the stock market and low unemployment. It seems less Twitter storms = better economy.
In the world of Donald Trump, complete and unwavering loyalty is not only expected but demanded.
When Fox News aired an interview with the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, he lashed out at the right-leaning network telling his 64 million followers to “start looking for a new News Outlet.”
“The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down!” Trump wrote in a series of tweets. “We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!”
….I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!
His tweets followed an interview of Xochitl Hinojosa, the communications director for the Democratic National Committee, in which she discussed next month’s Democratic presidential debate, among other things.
In his tweets, Trump said Hinojosa had been “spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback” from anchor Sandra Smith.
Trump also complained about commentators who appear regularly on Fox, including former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile and left-leaning pundit Juan Williams, as well as anchor Shepard Smith, who has been critical of Trump at times.
Democrats have repeatedly accused Fox News of having far too sympathetic coverage of Trump and his administration, with some likening it to state-run television.
A Fox News spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s tweets.
Guy Benson, a Fox News contributor, clapped back on Twitter, writing, “We don’t work for you.”
Donald Trump (above) raised eyebrows this week referring to himself as ‘the chosen one’ when answering questions from the press regarding the current trade war with China. Explaining his position that previous American presidents didn’t tackle China’s behavior when negotiating trade deals with Beijing, Trump said:
“President Clinton, President Bush, and President Obama and others should have done this long before me. My life would be much easier, although I enjoy doing it. But my life would be much easier if I just said, ‘Let China continue to rip off the United States.’ But I can’t do that.”
Finishing his thought, he looked up to the sky and said, “Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one.” But on Saturday, Trump ranted on Twitter that he was just joking. “When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said ‘I am the chosen one,’ at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a ‘Messiah complex.’” he said in the tweet.
When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said “I am the chosen one,” at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a “Messiah complex.” They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just….
….having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH…And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!
Donald Trump took to Twitter to quote conservative radio host Wayne Allyn Root, who referred to him as the “King of Israel” and the “second coming of God.” The Donald not only thanked Root but quoted him in full. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164138795475881986 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164138796205654016 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164138797220671488 This followed Trump telling reporters that Jewish people who vote for Democrats show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1163909975896416259 A few folks on Twitter had some thoughts on the “King of Israel” https://twitter.com/jchaltiwanger/status/1164162095681822720 https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1164171220859797504 https://twitter.com/battletested5/status/1164154880199733250 https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1164157414460891136
A former reality-TV personality took to Twitter recently to explain why he opposes teaching the accomplishments of LGBTQ people in schools.
James McCoy Taylor, who apparently came in 5th in the 12th season of The Bachelorette (2016), recently told his Twitter followers that he finds the idea to be a “waste” of tax dollars.
This was apparently sparked by a new law in Illinois that will require public schools to include the accomplishments of LGBTQ people in history classes beginning with the 2020-21 school year. The legislation was supported by over 40 education and civil rights groups in the state.
Illinois joins California, New Jersey, and Colorado in adding LGBTQ accomplishments to U.S. history studies in public schools.
Contrast that with the six states – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas – which have laws prohibiting the “promotion of homosexuality.” Often known as “no pro homo” laws, they prohibit schools from teaching LGBTQ topics in a positive light, according to U.S. News and World Report.
Taylor began with a tweet saying instead of history classes being taught about LGBTQ contributions, instructions in stock market investments would be a better use of tax-payer dollars.
And, of course, he prefaced it all by saying his comment wasn’t “from any kind of hate standpoint.”
I’m sure he has black friends, too…
LGBTQ history will now be taught in Illinois schools & just like that the decision has been made to home school my future kids
Not from any kind of hate standpoint but THIS is the best way you can find to waste our tax $ ? Can’t have a class about the stock market or something ?
James,replace the words #LGBTQ history in your tweet with Black History. Do you know what Racism is? Oh you do? Ok Well now it’s time for you to learn what Homophobia is. Both are Prejudice. RESPECT all people EQUALLY & realize why you should NEVER Show your face on twitter again https://t.co/pxzQwGTpzB
Taylor clapped back at openly gay Walking Dead actor Daniel Newman trying to laugh off the whole thing saying the ‘love is love’ crowd turns into haters when they have a different viewpoint.
What’s funny here is, after saying teaching students about the contributions of LGBTQ people is a “waste of tax dollars” and getting push back, he posted an ‘aw shucks’ video saying, “Twitter, you cannot take my smile…”
Is this where I should mention Taylor is a big Trump supporter? Quel surprise…
Mr. Taylor – if you’re going to put your opinions out in the public square, man up and be open to possibly learning something. Disagreement doesn’t make someone a ‘troll.’
But, Taylor wasn’t done with the stupid just yet. He had to come back a few days later with this:
Approx populations in USA:
Women: 51%
Hispanic: 20%
African American: 14%
Asian American: 7%
LGBTQ: 5%
This is why I don’t support LQBTQ History in Illinois
just numbers
…Other oppressed people have been waiting in line and you don’t get to skip it because you’re louder pic.twitter.com/wqCQpG3Cdh
By this flawed logic, with the Jewish population of the U.S. being estimated at between 1.4-1.8%, does that mean we shouldn’t teach kids about the Holocaust?
But put that aside.
As TONS of people pointed on on Twitter, the LGBTQ community intersects with all these demographics: women, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans. Race and sex are not sexual orientation. #duh
Also – Taylor says he’s ‘in Texas.’ I don’t know if he lives there or visiting…but here’s the thing.
I was born and raised in Texas. I graduated from the public school system there in 1981.
In high school, I learned about the fight for women’s rights, suffragettes, Seneca Falls, and the 19th Amendment.
I learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Civil War, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Jim Crow laws.
I learned how Latinos helped Texas win independence, who Sylvia Mendez was, and how Puerto Rico became part of the U.S.
I learned about Japanese internment camps during WWII.
So, when Taylor talks about “waiting in line,” does he not know this history has been a part of public schools for decades? I wasn’t only taught about what men contributed to society.
And what exactly is this “line” he talks about? Can we not teach about women’s, African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American and LGBTQ American contributions at the same time?
In Illinois, there are 176 days in a given school year. Even if you went by Taylor’s ill-thought ‘5 percent’ math of the LGBTQ population, is it unthinkable to imagine spending less than 9 history classes out of 176 on LGBTQ history?
As a nascent gay growing up in Texas, I’ll tell you what I did NOT learn about in school: how a brave group of LGBTQ people stood up for themselves at the Stonewall riots.
I did not learn that an openly gay man named Harvey Milk was elected to public office in 1977.
Nor did I learn about the persecution of gays by the Nazis during World War II.
There’s a LOT that could have been included in my history curriculum back then.
In any case, I’m not the only one who found Taylor to be out of his depth.
I’ll note that, until these recent LGBTQ-themed tweets, a quick scan of Taylor’s posts on Twitter (when not chiming in on ‘Bachelor/Bachelorette’ episodes) have averaged about 5-10 responses. These tweets received thousands of comments.
I think the hashtag #DeleteYourAccount was created for just this kind of moment.
Just a sample from the Twitterverse:
You lack logic. Just as 51% of Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans are women, LGBTQ also are included among women, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans. It’s not about “waiting in line.” It’s about ending oppression.
ugh thank god, i was just thinking “i wish there was a straight white male who could pretend he was speaking out on behalf of oppressed people when in reality he’s using oppressed groups as an excuse to word vomit his homophobia” 😍
How ‘bout the percentage on people who think LGBTQ only look like The Village People Meets a Pride Parade? And doesn’t realize we are freakin’ everywhere—your nurses, doctors, police, teachers, corporate types, soccer ‘rents? pic.twitter.com/6FdXNOWKGi
White, Straight, Cis man tells everyone who is not that, in what order he approves them to go in to be equal with him.
“LGBTQ history will now be taught in Illinois schools & just like that the decision has been made to home school my future kids” “It’s not a hate thing”
So this tweet has a lot of problems. Here are a few of them: * That 5% figure is likely just the number that are openly LGBTQ * Even if it’s only 5%, there is on average at least one LGBTQ kid in each classroom * It’s possible for kids to learn the histories of MULTIPLE groups.
I don’t know who runs the Twitter account for Netflix, but I laughed out loud over this post.
For those who may not know, Blown Away is the new series on Netflix featuring ten contestants in a glass blowing competition. The ultimate winner is crowned “Best in Blow.”
Netflix tweeted this short video today delving into the importance of a “glory hole,” which we all know is a furnace where the glass blowers reheat their glass.
As you can see in the clip, glory holes come up a lot in the show.
“So, when I got in the glory hole…” “We get assigned a glory hole…” “But we had spent too much time outside the glory hole…” “It got too big to go back into the glory hole…”
After three recent mass shootings, I can laugh at some gay-centric humor, ok? LOL
Yesterday I shared the newly-unveiled trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit musical, CATS, due out at Christmas.
Having been a part of the CATS family back in the 1980s, as a cast member of the original national touring companies, I have a personal fondness for the show.
And as a creative person, I knew the movie might take a different direction here and there, and I’m one to keep an open mind.
That said, apparently the trailer didn’t sit all that well with some folks on the interwebs, and they made themselves known on Twitter.
I’ll say up front – let’s not bash the movie before we see it. But, some of these tweets are pretty funny.
Take a look:
My favorite thing about the #Cats trailer is that it didn’t awaken anything (new) in me, sexually. So. Phew.
The Cats trailer scared me. It’s what would happen if an elderly hoarder with a Hummel figurine fetish dropped acid, ran into the street naked and was happy for the very first time, right before getting hit by a bus#Catspic.twitter.com/q5B6V0Lt48
the judy dench cat wears a fur coat. but is her coat made of cats? or is her flesh made of coat? she screams, for she does not know pic.twitter.com/SDTMfe434p
Sometimes, the Twitters can do awesome things. 🙂 For those of you who haven’t seen Avengers: Endgame, avert your eyes… Twitter user John Grosjean remixed Captain America lifting Thor’s hammer during the penultimate fight sequence with the 1986 song “The Touch” (from the Transformer movie) and it’s quite the perfect pairing. 
